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Community rally on justice this Sunday Allissa Tenni (left), Brynie Rosser-Guyatt and Emily Cocks-Wheeler are urging the community to attend the Freedom Park rally on Sunday at noon. Picture: Isabella Guzman Gonzalez
l CAIRNS ESPL ANADE | Isabella Guzman Gonzalez THREE women have organised a rally for justice at Freedom Park this Sunday, demanding harsher penalties for rape regardless of age after an alleged gang rape at Manunda last week. Brynie Rosser-Guyatt, Allissa Tenni and Emily Cocks-Wheeler have united
to organise the rally this Sunday, March 2 to demand for justice, better protection for victims and a stand for sexual assault survivors after three teens allegedly broke-in to a couple’s home in Manunda and gang raped a woman at knife point on Friday, February 21. No other details have been revealed about the teens except that two are 15 and one 16. One 15-year-old and
the 16-year-old are facing 11 offences including five counts of rape, two of armed robbery and deprivation of liberty and more, while the third boy is facing 13 offences, involving counts of rape, armed robbery and deprivation of liberty, as well as obstruction of a police officer and possession of drugs. The rally will take place at Freedom Park on the Esplanade near Cairns
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Hospital at noon. More details about the rally are still to be announced. The group is called 'Cairns Stands United' and are working hand to hand with the Crime and Justice Action Group (CJAG) to organise the event and are demanding from all levels of government a response to the alleged crime with a call for harsher penalties.
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THE beleaguered Mossman Mill is for sale. Liquidator John Goggin of Worrells has engaged Colliers Cairns to sell the mill, plant and associated properties via expressions of interest, closing on Thursday, March 20. Colliers said the mill was one of only 24 raw sugar milling factories in Australia and had been in operation since 1897. “The mill provided crushing facilities to cane growing areas of Daintree, Whyanbeel, Miallo, Mossman, Mowbray, Cassowary and Julatten. The mill is no longer in operation,” Colliers said. “The offering comprises the mill factory, installed plant, industrial sheds, office buildings, parking and laydown areas, nine residential dwellings, rural lands and substantial infrastructures for power and water supply," they said. “This is a rare opportunity to acquire a significant asset with substantial potential for redevelopment or continued industrial use.” Features include the mill, offices, sheds and residential dwellings), 41.96ha across sight titles, infrastructure in place for refurbishment or alternate use, development and farming opportunities and direct water access with off-take licenses. Contact Stacey Quaid at Colliers Cairns on 0418 773 258 or John Lynch on 0418 771 340
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